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Dive into the immersive world of Albion Online with my in-depth review! Whether you're a seasoned adventurer or a newbie in the realm of MMORPGs, join me as we explore the captivating lands of Albion. From its player-driven economy to intense PvP battles and expansive crafting system, we'll uncover the game's strengths and weaknesses. Discover the secrets of this sandbox MMORPG and find out if it's the right MMORPG for you in 2023.
#mmorpg #albion
00:00 Intro
3:00 The Beginning
11:40 The Open World
20:00 MICROTRANSACTIONS
23:00 pvp sorry for yelling before
28:00 the grind

[@01tallball]

"I haven't had fun in years." As an MMO enjoyer that truth hurts lmfao

[@xomox5316]

single player games for now on, no more going back to 10-20 year old MMOs we left them for a reason old stale dead wastes of time

[@brewergamer]

Crafting in Albion is important because literally every single item, every single drop in the game is crafted by players. Next time you loot an item click on it and you'll see it was crafted by a player. It's done through the Black Market system in Caerleon, you sell your crafted items to the Black Market and it is then used as drops from mobs. A really unique and intuitive way to balance an ingame economy imo.

[@TomDonnan]

That's a cool loot system. How does it work if nobody is selling the items that the mob drops though, does it just drop nothing in that case?

[@brewergamer]

@@TomDonnan the black market always buys items from players, if no players are selling the item that is supposed to drop the buy price goes higher and higher until the order is filled. so you can craft and sell an item to it for millions potentially. EDIT: I will say it still will drop an item, just an alternative one.

[@NatoRadeX]

If they really want to balance the economy they need to put a 1-2 plot limit for cities per account/IP. These cartels just bully any new player who tries to build a plot to sell whatever he is trying to sell. Plus some cities are all owned by 1 player at some extremes.

[@TorpaydoS]

To answer your question about crafting in Albion, it does make a load of money for a small minority. If no one crafted, the crafting would make you tons of money. This is because of the city you mentioned at the end, Caerleon. There is something called the Black Market here. The Black Market is similar to the Auction house/GE that most people would be used to. But instead of another player buying the Two-Handed Axe you are selling, the game buys it. Then the game takes your Axe and puts it into the loot pool for the reward chests that you open in PVE or PVP content. This is because nearly every item in the game you interact with (with the exception of crafting materials and things like experience tomes), was crafted by a player and sold to the black market. So if everyone in the game stopped crafting and supplying the black market, the game would eventually run out of loot for dungeon rewards (and the Black Market buys things at the lowest offer that people post it for, so eventually it would start to offer two to three times the value of an item for someone to supply it). Moreover, gear is lost to other players on death in full loot PVP zones (red and black zones). There is a chance that gear "trashes" and becomes completely worthless and unrepairable. So crafters make sure there is a balance in the system of the loot supplied to PVE-ers and the money that the game provides for crafted gear.

[@KevinZ.000]

A good explanation of the black market, it is rather unique to AO.

[@alyasVictorio]

OOOOOH!!! So that's why most of the time, some legendary chests (outside of Roads of Avalon) had loot worth of less than a million silver because selling T6~T8.4 items was way rarer (all because of how less crafters/gatherers play this game due to gankers tho-, which results in less items to craft and sell)

[@everythingpony]

​@@KevinZ.000wait its real? Where is it? I wanna buy on thr black market

[@KevinZ.000]

@@everythingpony Player sell to the black market for better prices than the cities and the game uses the black market for loot drops. You can't buy off of it, only sell to.

[@GibsnRage]

This whole comment is accurate, but misses the fundamental point: All gear, consumables, and mounts in the game are crafted by players (with some minor exceptions such as low tier tutorial stuff, donkeys, tomes of insight, and some others - where the exceptions do not impact player interactions at the mid-late game.) You cannot own a tier 4 bow if someone didn't craft it. You cannot own a horse, if someone did not raise it and saddle it, and you cannot drink a health potion if someone did not craft it. Gathering is foundational - without it, there will be no materials for crafting. Crafting is essential, without it there would be no tools of war for people to use to fight, and the rest of us who can't be farced with crafting because we're too interested in fighting are farming silver to pay those people for their work. Most players at endgame take up gathering professions, many will take two or three and focus on them, but more dedicated players will train up all of them because it is very easy to just grab a gatherer set from the bank and go grab some materials and in a quick hour or two make a few million silver. It's one of the fastest and easiest active methods for earning silver in the game, and since it's a full loot PvP game, it's quite possible to burn through a lot of it very quickly :P

[@Rawbful]

I’m so glad I found Albion. It is actually an MMO and not a single player game disguised as an MMO.

[@steadychasingmoneybands6213]

wait til you see how its pay 2 win

[@HexAndrei]

wdym p2w bro @@steadychasingmoneybands6213

[@xongaming4456]

@@steadychasingmoneybands6213 pay to win how? Even if you use real money to buy a bunch of ingame gold to purchase high tier gears, you're still not invincible, you CAN still die from someone who never used real-money to purchase anything from the game. There's no special exclusive stats for anyone who uses real money.

[@Moth-Mellow]

​@@xongaming4456You must be new. How adorable.

[@LolZatz]

@@Moth-Mellow what???? Do u even play it ? Lmao it’s all about your pvp skills. “ oh high gear = ez win” 😂 dead wrong ip spec pvp ganking everything u need to learn if you ain’t got 50mill fame or ever joined a guild and join them in biz ganking than you ain’t know shit 😂

[@99sonder]

I love how you're slowly but surely transitioning into silly zoomer Josh Strife Hayes

[@JaceComix]

I'm here for it

[@psyjinx]

Nakey Jakey and J1mmy vibes. Love this format.

[@plum999o]

i weirdly never see other osrs content creators mentioning josh, tho i suppose he doesn't talk about any others either

[@asKiFTW]

What an odd statement

[@IdylOnTV]

my hairline disagrees that I am a zoomer

[@chenzhao3905]

as an eveonline veteran, what I feel is that: Albion is eve in fantasy land. LOL

[@Kenionatus]

Very much.

[@BanControl]

eve player here as well, and absolutely. black zone is just sov null and red zone is lowsec xD

[@Hananniee]

Idyl strife hayes

[@jacobmehring1659]

Hello Torvesta

[@LPcrazy_88]

Excuse me your Hanannie-ness, that is -President- Idyl Strife Hayse to you.

[@devilyouknow6714]

You're like the modern blues clues of mmo youtube and I'm here for it

[@IdylOnTV]

I won't abandon you like Steve did

[@TemperedMedia]

@@IdylOnTV To be fair, even if you did, it'd likely be for the same reason Steve left... man can only subject himself to the torture for so long.

[@megrock6920]

“Oh no, I don’t think-“ (I don’t comment much but I love your videos, and wanted you to know you have fans watching them all the way through! Keep up the good work!)

[@greyveil]

I have been playing AO for about a year and a half, I love the game, and you did a great job describing it, and yes, once your spec is high enough in crafting you can make good money, you also get higher yield in gathering as you spec up gathering.

[@LL43216]

I’m so happy seeing this channel growing steadily. Idk how you edit and script but as someone who’s trying to do the KZbin stuff too (on a different account) it definitely makes me curious. Your humor and niche resonate with me and I am taking notes

[@justinjohnson48]

This is old but I just came across this dude. He literally just watched j1mmy as osrs content creator and does his videos the exact same way. So to answer your question, just take what others are doing and copy

[@nickparsons3194]

Always been interested in albion maybe ill give ut a go now. Also please make a runelite plugin that plays Nigel Thornberry saying "smashing" when you use a dragon pickaxe spec

[@nocomment9306]

Great video man, really had a blast watching it. I must say if you join a guild the layer of depth in the game tenfold, all the group content, guild dynamics and drama is pretty fun and also helps to keep the game engaging. One of my best memories in this game is playing in a small guild fighting to place a hideout in the black zone and claim our right to live there. It is true that the only lore this game has is the one that the players themselves create, and i think that is pretty dope.

[@kyrooo12]

So basically Red Zones are scary for crafters/transporters but not scary for solo player Theres Black Zone for that that you missed, its a outland map thats around 3x bigger than the royal continent and where most of the contents/guild contents rest

[@smokedupgaming]

As a guy who usually shaves, i decided i would see how long i could go without shaving, and without the ability to grow a beard i basically look like you Idyl and it gives me great joy to see that others embrace their shitty beards.

[@TonyOnTheInternet]

YOURE NOT ALONE SHITTY NON-FULL BEARD GAME RISE UP

[@psyjinx]

Anytime I feel self-conscious about my beard, I just throw a shoutout to simpleflips.

[@johnybalohny]

Honestly, I would have never thought about his beard if you hadn't mentioned it. Doesn't seem bad to me.

[@IdylOnTV]

why shave when i can embrace my patchy beard

[@dectocs]

Just remember if it is really patchy, especially moustache area, it may be inevitable that trimming it to a certain length or lower is the only good look.

[@megakillowning]

Crafting items is really helpful when u get to T8. You can craft your item with max enchantment which u can not buy in the market. Oh and if you can craft a max enchantment gear you can attune them to add unique stats based on your playstyle.

[@FeltonDood]

So, the crafting system is how the drops are generated. Any time you get an item from a chest in a dungeon or where ever. The game buys items from players from a special market. (It's a little more complicated than that but that's the basics)

[@adoorknob7053]

Commenting now as I add this to my watch later list so I can see if my assumptions hold up. I'm gonna guess he's in the phase most people who like Albion go through where the PvE has yet to become dry and he hasn't been funneled into the endless loop of getting ganked by sweats using recon bots in the BZ.

[@adoorknob7053]

I was correct.

[@perytonz1608]

binging this channel rn despite my very limited mmorpg experience... your attitude and video style is not only very entertaining and charming but its addicting and making me wanna get back into mmorpg stuff reeeeeeaal bad despite my lack of money or time to do so. super good content

[@GC-jm9bt]

Got a bit burned from OSRS and tried a bit of Albion. It's fun at the start but the novelty wears off quickly. If you want to try out this game and do some pvm/pve, don't do it, this game it's focussed around pvp. Probably the best way to enjoy Albion is to play it with a group of friends or guild(with other people that want to do pvp). It's not a very good game to play as a solo player. Generally I want a world that feels lively(other players around) but want to play mostly solo. It's a sandbox pvp mmo, and most of my negative feedback has to do with me looking for a different type of game. So here we go: Once you've done a couple of dungeons, you have seem them all. There are limited amount of mob types. The map is not special, it's a just a bunch of squares linked togheter with no remarkable points of interest. You don't get the wow-factor that you get with other mmos when you discover a new big city. Speaking of cities in Albion, apart from aesthetics and crafting/refining bonusses they all feel like carbon-copies of eachother. Speaking of crafting/refining/gathering, if you don't have premium don't even bother, it will just result in losses. There is no point without premium. You can do stuff like the mists, so you don't encounter large groups. But you will encounter people with double your IP there, and even if you play it perfectly you will still lose because the other person out-gears you. Don't come in and expect it be a competitve environment with a level playing field. Don't come in and expect quests, meanining full gathering/craftging, pve. Only play this game if you like the combat system and like pvp.

[@itzajordan]

Everyone else has failed to mention what you have👏 game aint shit without premium😂

[@mattl8113]

I used to play Albion with some online friends. Outside of guildwide dungeon/ZvZ content, they all did *one* thing. They gathered, refined, crafted, farmed, OR did pvp- never more than a couple of these. Me? I tried to do everything, with varying levels of success. I actually got to T8 herb farming, maxed out a few fire and healing staves, crafted some T7 gear. But for the Idea of being-self sufficient? No, I would NOT recommend that ideal.

[@marcspataru]

I played for 500+ hours and left because of monetisation changes. They heavily increased the premium prices per month to something that's too much.

[@PhenomRom]

Wait to how much

[@drackaris_]

@@PhenomRom 15 a month if you pay monthly down to like 12 if you pay yearly. I think local markets may have had different price changes as well, but the price for silver (in game currency) has gone up tremendously, meaning if you were totally free to play and paid for premium with silver, its much harder to do now than it was about a year back.

[@aleco678]

@@drackaris_thats not too bas for current year tbh a bit expensive yea

[@crazykhespar8487]

@Aleco678 Its not hard for enfranchised players- For new players its an automatic turnoff.

[@ColorbIind]

Ya, I do feel like the premium price is kinda ridiculous, especially since it doesn't even really give you extra content, but once you get to a certain point, or if you get pretty good at the pvp it is actually pretty easy to fund you membership with in game currency. It definetly takes a while to get there (unless you have experience with similar style combat. I have played A LOT of LoL and the combat is somewhat similar to that so I feel like I picked up the combat pretty quick. If you get good at the combat you can stand to make a lot of money in corrupted dungeons, and it being 1 v 1, really comes down to your mechanics and skill. If you are less mechanically talented you can get a group together and gank people. It is very possible to pay for your membership entirely with in game money once you get rolling.

[@goncaloferreira2952]

idk about albion, but im glad i found your youtube man. really apreciated the fun video and your sense of humor

[@heyjeanwtf]

Please I need more of your vids to watch before sleeping

[@DI0NY5US]

I miss ~2014 EvE Online. Best sandbox MMO experience I've ever had.

[@BanControl]

i would argue eve is in a lot healthier state 10 years later, come back and check it out :)

[@mohammedghanem9228]

I have been looking for a sandbox mmo because runesscape UI for me a new player is unbearable so thank you for this

[@bonk2910]

Healing is probably my favorite aspect of Albion, it's also one of the few mmos where I found healing to be enjoyable and rewarding.

[@7Myuri]

24:28 noo, you joined at the Martlock Faction, after all the resources that Bridgwatch gave you they even showed you how is the batle at 23:13😭😭

[@niicedave]

Idyl bro you're funny as shit. Great content as always just wanted to tell you almost every single bit you do actually makes me laugh out loud or at the very least exhale air more quickly from my nostrils.

[@tustinbear5831]

two things that will turn me away from an mmo: 1. dailies/weeklies that are required to progress 2. to play effiencent you need to play multiple classes and do said dailies on them 1 part 2. bosses that you can only kill a limited number of times per day/week

[@Matt-eg9dl]

At the end of the day, Albion has only one meaningful daily quest, and it is for 10 learning points, which is very helpful. Even when I wasn't actively playing the game, when I was bored I would log in on my phone and chop a couple trees just to get my learning points. It was fun, it was just enough. Albion also has daily crafting bonuses and 2-day rotating activity bonuses. Crafting bonuses add some strategy for crafting, which won't affect you unless you like crafting. Activity bonuses are right-sized. They give a real incentive to try a part of the game you haven't tried before without making your go-to activity a waste of time.

[@aelion7761]

None of that applies to albion, but that doesn't mean doesn't have it's cons.

[@baumapfel4463]

1. the dailies in albion are not important you dont need to do them. 2. you dont need to level multiple weapons and gear if you want to play only one type of content. 3. albion is not a gacha game you can grind all day long.

[@tacofacefart]

​@@Matt-eg9dlI've literally been playing since beta and I didn't know there was a learning point daily.

[@steadychasingmoneybands6213]

@@tacofacefart how? it pops up every day...

[@shmootube5000]

Albion crafting system is such that you only make money if you use focus and fill journals while crafting, otherwise you will at best break even. Aside from having to have premium to really use focus, I actually like how it works because it forces you to specialize on just one crafting type, but one specific thing like if you do cooking, you will use your focus more efficiently if you max out specifically pies, then it’s like yeah you’re the pie guy in your city and every day you got your eyes on what pies are selling for, it’s like a stock market mini game.

[@xanderluciano3387]

Faction chat sounds awesome. I'm sold!

[@StzaJack]

This man seems like he's losing his mind and it's beautiful. Loving the direction your channel is going - as a osrs only player.

[@yoshi_commit_tax_fraud]

If you are the president of MMORPGs, why don't you dress like it? You've gotta step up your outfits, Josh Strife Hayes style.

[@Zaliz4832]

I love how niche you’re community is, but goddamn are you an underappreciated content creator. Keep up the good work!

[@pieTone]

Just a few things, pvp also exists in bz if you re flagged for faction ( and you encounter someone of a rival faction ) or you accept a duel. And.. you don t gain focus daily without premium

[@papasalvo]

Part of the reason for the crafting grind is the upgrading of already existing gear. There is a merchant in the towns that lets you roll for a bonus to items that you give him, usually ur already equipped gear, and u can make ur items more powerful without needing to craft higher tier gear. BUT u have to bring him the raw materials for this. This is basically a flat bonus to things like damage, cast time and attack speed

[@mythcraft3445]

albion is a great game, but the reasons it isnt big is a few things right. full loot deaths scare casuals away, and zerg pvp controlled areas scare people away. if you have mechanics like that in a game its bound to never have a truly masive audience, but it is one of the few mmos around that still has a steady playerbase, i dont think that game needs any help and i dont think ppl arent aware of it existing

[@peterlopez2388]

Nail right on the head. Personally I hate games with forced PvP but for those who like it I hear it’s a good game.

[@torjuck7819]

Used to play albion for a few years and was a crafter/zerg player in the black zone for a medium sized guild... I used to maintain 6 accounts with 3 characters each all with premium just with the crafting(did not spend a cent for premium just for cosmetics)... what I did was buy and transport stuff in all the cities and would mainly craft meta items for Zerg vs Zerg(ZVZ) in all the cities and eventually got tired of it as was basically doing it like a job... the best and worst part for me was the ZVZ in the game.

[@Xceedpvp]

I like how you can progress in this game doing what you want im kinda new and made ny first mil playing yellow zone corrupted portals

[@Stomeruk]

its not an regular mmo its a PVPmmo with tiny microscopic pve in it and i even bought into the beta and never played it since it was entirely like eve online where you lose everything on death. Just not fun in my opinion, but the graphic styles does look nice still

[@emmanuelsampaio4687]

A lot has changed since then, with tons of pve content, raids, etc. But yeah, the focus is full loot pvp, you gotta think of your gear like it's a consumable, like food or potions. You should maybe give it a go. If you bought the beta, you probably have founder skins that are worth a lot, and i mean A LOT of silver today.

[@DarkOmegaMK2]

I was kind of interested in the Albion Online from this video, until the point where it talks about the cash shop, i was like "holy shit, that's a lot of stuff you can buy, i'm out of here".

[@johnhale2632]

It's only cosmetics and offers the ability to trade for ingame usable currency, if you think that's bad then just know it was gonna happen anyways since people RMT in every game just like runescape...

[@d0onut]

The cosmetic shop was a big nope, glad it was highlighted

[@KevinZ.000]

@@johnhale2632 I play AO and you are correct that is mostly cosmetic, and RMT is a real issue is many MMO's

[@Matt-eg9dl]

There are a number of "starter bundles" that give you cosmetics for the price of premium itself. So, free cosmetics. I never use them. In a WoW-type game, you raid the final boss and get epic armor and its cool. In Albion, if you die you drop your gear. All gear is basically consumable. So, no gear is epic show off gear. Cosmetics just give you a theme. It is completely unrelated to the game, and it is just for fun.

[@HowToKillAliens]

you can turn off cosmetics in this game

[@martinpospisil3747]

You should review every mmorpg like that. Or atleast the ones that are popular or have high active player count.

[@Bandoolero]

bro injected so much humor into this video, deserves more subs

[@rerere1569]

I played quite a bit of albion (around 250 hours). For me too much focus on open world pvp which is almost always unfair, it makes some experiences especially rewarding, but most of the time will leave you salty after you losing everything over and over again to a bunch of gankers

[@sketch2347]

legit the exact reason why i stopped playing. I worked my ass off to get the ability to gather high tier resources with tools i crafted myself. Hours of my time put into this game, and from time to time money put into the game that i was having a good time with. well cut too this month when i realized how im basically at the mercy of gankers if i want to continue my gatherer journey as im forced to go into PVP zones to harvest and gather and it sucks. its actually almost impossible. so i quit, i wont waste my time like that, hoping that the hours of my life pay off, only to realize they wont pay off, and im actually being held back from "play the game the way I wanted to play", which is the games way of trying to attract players with that moniker. Its a good game, its well made, and you can tell the dev team cares, but its just not for me anymore and it sucks. I didnt think this would happen with a game I constantly talk positive about. I dont mind ganks in games for the record. It just doesn't feel right in Albion online I can't put my finger on it.

[@sketch2347]

@@bagofchips885 honestly i dont even think it would be a problem if the game didnt sell itself as one of those "do what you want games". no its not one of those games. yes you can be a fisherman and just fish and contribute to economy and buy stuff sure, but you will be stuck in low level zones forever if you dont want to PVP, and you will never be able to work your way up the rarity tier of fish.

[@lovathon6365]

the lack of any substantial pve. also, crafting sucks since its so expensive since the game doesnt have a standard fee...

[@MuriloLuzPD]

I was one of those fishermen, I got to tier 8 fishing in the red zones, but it wasn't fun. I stayed hours in the same map and same spots because it was the only viable way to get good fish, and every time a flagged name appeared on the corner of the screen I needed to run for my life. And the black zones are even worst. So much time wasted...@@sketch2347

[@sketch2347]

@@lovathon6365 yeah you really have to hope the station owners dont tax your crafting to death

[@555Plus]

I like the player driven economy in this game, but too many bots took over blue and yellow zones. It's very hard for new players to make enough silver to buy premium.

[@alyasVictorio]

Yeah! Most bots stole nearby resources from nearby real players, which is simple but irritating

[@baumapfel4463]

if you want to make money dont waste your time in blue and yellow zones go in to black zone/mists with a cheap set

[@555Plus]

@@baumapfel4463 That's the problem. Black zone are fun, but it's very stressful when grinding there for hours. Sometimes I just want to be a filthy casual and chill out in the safe zonle.

[@Deemole]

That doesn't matter cuz you can't make prem in yellow or blue zone lol. Shouldn't be In those zone anyways it won't get u anywhere.

[@Larimuss]

Yeah bots own the safe zones and guilds/gankers own the others.

[@TonySpumoni_]

damn dude the seinfield part *chefs kiss*

[@neolordie]

your pc wallpaper is really cool, who is it from ?

[@MrSimpsondennis]

So; TL;DR: - which skills you are leveling depends on what you are using to level - the skill tree is immense, but it's actually a merged overview of RS's many skill menu's - equipment tier system is similar to Minecraft's pickaxe system - combat is simplified RS3 combat oh no... I don't, think

[@CaffyPvP]

The combat was too simplified. It got boring after a few weeks and I never went back.

[@Kenionatus]

I would compare combat more with a moba than with RS3.

[@MrSimpsondennis]

@@Kenionatus was considering that, but at that point it would make more sense to compare it to something like CS:GO or smth, since the skills vary depending on the weapon. Moba would be more like WoW combat

[@Kenionatus]

The reason I'm comparing it to MOBAs is because both have a small number of abilities with relatively long cooldowns, where the player skill lies in using them at the right time in the right situation. Albion and MOBAS also share the concept of spammable and ultimate abilities, so if it's comparable to a shooter then a hero shooter like Overwatch.@@MrSimpsondennis

[@Rocker7550]

advice for new players: don't gather or craft, get some silver from yellow zones, use that silver to go the red or black zones (mists are good), focus on one weapon at a time, save up for premium (then you can gather and craft bcs it saves a lot of time), AAAND only use learning points on gathering

[@Egghead012]

That sounds like a lot of "play the game MY way or dont play at all"

[@cosmefulanito5052]

@@Egghead012 no it sounds like a great advice for new players

[@Poroty]

The idea behind crafting ties tightly to Black Market which you can only find in Caerleon. For every drop you get when killing mobs or opening chests, those drops are managed by the system. And Black Market npc is a market which is run by the system. You can't purchase stuffs from Black Market, you can only fill their demands and in return they pay you. So imagine yourself crafting 50 pieces of the same gear, cuz you want the crafting fame or something similar to that. No one is going to just buy all 50 of them. But with Black Market, you can fulfill around 10 pieces of their orders every 5-10 minutes. That's when crafting becomes very lucrative.

[@tacofacefart]

Guilds are also a huge part of the game. A good guild will give you hours of fun game play.

[@maxkilla4325]

so also it didnt seem like you touched on the market enough which is completely player driven as well as drops from dungeons, everthing on the market was either crafted or gathered by another player, as well as any gear drops dungeons, which come through the black market in the center city. So gathering and crafting fuels pvp as well as the economy as a whole.

[@Elysia119]

Okay a player here with over 10.000+ hours in albion online (ex-player tbh). The game starts off great thats 100% true, looking back that was my best time it. To get your first cow mount, to get the first few hundred K silver, get your island and your crops going etc. But then it just gets worse and worse and worse. You cant play solo (if you looking for solo game, just look elsewhere), you are forced to cooperate with all kinds of stupid people or people who simply seeking their own gain and leave you to die. But lets say you get lucky and you find your second family over there. You are still going to be grinded down between two wheels. 1. You will be a small spec of dust with no power: You (your guild) dont own any high tier black zones, you dont own any safe land where you can safely farm up from high tier resources / dungeons etc; you will have absolutely no money or you will have to work for the same amount of money 10x more, and you will feed the big guys guilds with your corpses and loots day by day. 2. You will be a small spec of dust with almost no power: You (your guild) does own a high tier black zone, or own hideouts in influental zones. Now you can run around the high tier zone, watch how every resource is already farmed out, or being farmed out by your "teammates". If you get lucky or just have a ton of time, you can eventually find some high tier resources and farm them, trying to dodge rival guilds ganking squads to make it back to the HO, thinking to yourself that "ohh boy, this is nothing... you have to transport it all the way back to the main cities and how hard that will be". Ofc being part of the guild has its benefits as i described, but has its downsides: you have to go to CTA every day/multiple days a week. That means maxing out specs that you dont want for the team (like a job) and then come up multiple times a week to defend those aforementioned high tier zones from the enemy guild. How does this looks like? Well you wil have to follow your shotcaller that means running around in a zerg with 2fps around multiple black zones until you find the enemies (this can take hours) or the enemies decide to attack. Then you will be probably dead in the first few second or if you are lucky you can do that for 2+ more hours.

[@joelg5]

Actually made me laugh out loud a few times, liked and subscribed, good work

[@GrubbsandWyrm]

That desk looks pretty cool. I've never seen one with presets befpre

[@maxkilla4325]

Just here to say as a near two year player of this game if your new save your learning points for gathering!

[@runeritari3]

in FFXIV you actually can start from desert funny enough if you choose Ul'dah as ur choise from 3 starting areas! So some MMO start with desertt!!

[@desertranger82]

crafting it's only good if you invest in it first. And for properly do it, you have to travel into the full risk pvp zone to places that takes like 10 mins to get in. Because those maps gives more return rate.

[@alyasVictorio]

The way the combat system of Albion Online works is similar to moba combat system (which also my style of gameplay), which is why most moba players play this mmo game. But other than that, its "tier list" tier is alongside FF14, ESO, WoW, Warframe, Old School Runescape, EVE Online, and Black Desert Online, however, this tier still won't get into the higher tier that "Guild Wars 2" sitting for (I supposed to include Old School Runescape if it wasn't for its outdated combat type known as "tab targetting" 😅) specially its everything it had Edit: Anyway, can you please also try Guild Wars 2? If already made a video about this game, please give the video link

[@snaq__]

i remember getting banned from an guild intern pvp tournament because i had a poison dot/self heal dot build where i gave my enemy dots and went invisible or used the stonecutter boots to run away lmao

[@lady_sofine1193]

Albion Online started off very strong for me. crafting actually felt useful unlike other MMOs. I hit a massive roadblock going from T3 to T4 (i think at least, not loggin into the game to check lol) as crafting just became such a slog it was no longer fun. I don't mind grinds (hell im doing mlm on OSRS as i type this) but such a crafting heavy game shouldnt have shared resources. That and knowing for every resource I collected i was at a disadvantage because i wasnt a premium member (small benefits sure but still a benefit). That and learning everything basically lead into PVP. Want to do the best PVE stuff?? Well good luck as its in a PVP zone which is NOT optional PVP. Those just really killed my enjoyment of the game.

[@Pixelest001]

You shouldn’t be crafting all your own gear. It’s basically a waste of time. You craft mass quantities to make money and then buy the single items you need. But crafting like that without premium will always lose money. As for the heir tier content you should join a guild and make friends. Albion is actually an mmo where you need to play with others to do content

[@cooltjh4]

@@Pixelest001 even crafting WITH premium loses you money, hell crafting with fame loses money too.

[@Megneous]

@@cooltjh4 Make a spreadsheet. Crafting is the only thing I do to make silver in Albion and I do just fine without premium. I just don't craft things if they're not profitable. It's always possible to find something else to craft.

[@owlishi]

UO Outlands would be an extremely interesting, but tough video to do. It’s so unforgiving but it’ll hook ya.

[@pumpkingeist]

You had me at "demon fang". I will not explain myself

[@fooff1]

I played Albion cause my buddy said “hey, play this game with me” and proceeded to abandon me after one session. Over all it’s interesting enough to keep the dedicated base invested, but I don’t like the dailies or lack of concrete progression/unlocks. I bought an island and farmed animals for a couple weeks, completed a corrupted dungeon a night, and promptly forgot it existed until you brought it up. The best part for me is how reminiscent the combat is of early league of legends, but that’s also a downside because it requires much more attention than I’m willing to give an mmo on a consistent basis. Thanks for shedding light on this coolio game idyl

[@DeliciousHunterMD]

When I played Albion years ago it was incredibly pay-to-win, but in the sense that you had to pay in order to win. No amount of grinding was enough.

[@Pixelest001]

What are you talking about? You can only purchase gold for the game sure you can buy some higher tier gear but you don’t need it in any way and I regularly beat people in gear that is 2-3 tiers higher than my own.

[@Real-Ruby-Red]

@@Pixelest001Your own comment defeats your opinion.

[@emmanuelsampaio4687]

@@Real-Ruby-Red It's a full loot pvp game. Players don't mind (actually i'd say most enjoy) fighting whales and players in higher gear tiers because they are very profitable to kill and the difference in power between the tiers is not that high. If you fight whales in 8.4 gear 40 times (which is very rare sight btw) while you wear 8.0, you only need to win once to break even. Whales in albion mostly have a really bad time, since if you're not a decent player, no matter the gear you're wearing, you're just a loot pinãta.

[@ColorbIind]

@@Pixelest001 I'd like someone to find me an mmo where players don't purchase in game money lol. Sure the actual devs allow you to purchase in game money which is a pay to win offering, but lets be real, players would purchase in game money even if the devs didnt offer it. It is just something that will always exist in games like this, you will always have people farming in game currency and selling it for real world money

[@mrsmile5009]

Albion is pay to win? LoL, try me then, lets go 1v1 with your 8.4 gear in the black zones, with my 8 flat gear and I'll show you the reason why Albion isn't pay to win.

[@hibingboing2418]

I just noticed how small your channel is. I hope you grow, your stuff is nice.

[@SilphBoss]

12:33 whoa that was a close one, almost had a complete existential thought!

[@baska-]

This game would've been very good if it weren't for one big mistake: mobile compatibility. Back in 2017 when they decided the game had to be mobile compatible I knew it wouldn't be as good as it could.

[@itzajordan]

Can whoop people on pc with mobile combat😂

[@baska-]

@@itzajordan being good in a shit game is the same as being shit, sadly

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

Having a lot of experience with many mmo's and their history.. the reason nobody is playing it is because most people know this one won't last. You should especially be warry of free to play mmo's in general. I don't know of any one that is actually good and that lasted. It might be good now, but as you know, an mmo is a time investment, and this one will make you regret that in 1-2 years from now.

[@Ghi102]

I mean Runescape has had f2p for years that is pretty decent

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

@@Ghi102Thats not the same. A free to play portion of an mmo that is essentially a "trial", like Runescape or Final Fantasy 14 or even WoW has is not the same as full free to play mmo. You still have to pay a monthly sub to get to the actual game (through FF14's is very generous). Or, in the case of Runescape you can get a bond; but someone still paid for that at some point. Once its actually fully free to play, you'll get a whole slew of issues of how they're trying to make money off of you. On top of that its a PVP focussed MMO, those are even less likely to do well over time; because a small active portion of players gain all the power and everyone else gets left in the dust... and no new players will come in.

[@DarkOmegaMK2]

@@Ghi102 And don't you think it's pretty fucked up that the old ass mmo is somehow outlasting, basically, every other modern mmo?

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

@@SawGudman Thats just them preparing it for the whale market. They'd rather have a sub-par game where a handful of people spend a ton of money on. Even more reason to not touch that game at all.

[@Kenionatus]

I have to say, I quite like the simple combat mechanics. There are so many pieces of gear that it's already hard enough to gain good game knowledge. (PvE is rather meh compared to MMOs that focus more on it, but that is imo at least as much due to it not being the main focus of the devs.) @@SawGudman

[@Sifeus]

Idyl I love your office which is Real and Tangible and Exists in Three Dimensions.

[@EdwardGordington]

guild wars nightfall starts in the desert, you should try the original guild wars out its a gem lost to time. 11:30

[@raptorking3678]

Albion deserves so much more respect than it gets

[@alyasVictorio]

...if only the grind is less enough to afford any gear they lost from full-loot PvP zone due to how mediocre the chest loot had in comparison to marketplace item pricing

[@steadychasingmoneybands6213]

it doesnt deserve any love... go to twitch and watch a streamer not 1 smile will be seen

[@eikon7559]

Albion is not for everybody. You barelly scraped surface. It's a high demanding pvp game or pve with pvp involved. Basially Imagine you had only wilderness in osrs. Yeah you have blue/yellow/red areas where's there's limited pvp but it takes week or so to geow past that. Majority of time from mid to end game content are black zones with full drop enabled. If you want to do pve there, be on the look out for gangers. It's awesome for people who loves pvp, or like being on somewhat on edge durring pve. But most fun comes from group activities and fights. Stakes are high, therefore more fun to win.

[@UmbralScythe]

can you make a similar video about Guild Wars 2? Really awesome style of video

[@wingo69]

hey man i just wanted to say that i fuckin love your channel

[@SwoleBenji]

No, this game is terrible. You can literally get banned for pvping against their protected class of streamers.

[@questor3492]

Not you again

[@Richkenney33]

​@@questor3492lmao HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED TO TELL YOU, OLD MAN. Dude does this to every gaming community he's apart of. Toxic slag

[@elmerramos1796]

if you are stream sniping and intentionally harassing, then yes.

[@SwoleBenji]

@@elmerramos1796 It's not harassment it's playing the damn game.

[@chadblood7346]

If you're sniping, you should be banned.

[@portiadevorak5393]

the dance for orb is a mandatory thing in the mists

[@ragtagsnipse914]

Albion is like Tekken, sure there are alot of options, but you only really need to focus on a handful of them to be successful and have fun with the game. Btw about the mircrotransactions and premium, it used to cost 8 mil silver a couple of years ago. However, since players (really just a select few super elite players) are able to significantly shift the market, the last couple of years the price of gold-->silver has gone up dramatically.

[@ao_nesnes9052]

About Crafting: What is special about Albion as a Sandbox is that the whole economy is Player-driven, meaning that the game itself does not produce equipment (like armor or weapons) -> They are ALL player-crafted This is due to the Black Market (in Caerleon). When you loot an item out of a chest in a dungeon, you are not getting a game-generated item, but something that another player crafted and sold to the black market, which distributes those items throughout the world. (You can even see the crafter's name on the item) That is also how the system balances itself. The more players craft, the more loot there is and the less items are worth -> leading to people tending to do other content instead. If less people craft it, the value goes up, and loot becomes less, -> doing dungeons becomes less profitable and more players tend towards crafting again. Also what you mentioned about higher-level crafting: Most players don't craft every item they wear. Rather, they specialize in crafting certain items (which will in turn make it more efficient the higher your crafting spec is), they will buy-order the materials, craft en masse, and then sell it across different markets (which is also a thing because every city has a separate market) then they will buy whatever they need for themselves. Of course, there are many different ways to play the market, like Transporting between the cities, selling to the black market, manipulating market prices, investing into high-value items, but that would go into too much depth here What might still be worth mentioning: There are actually many players buying Premium with Silver, but it is hard to do for a new player. Investing and making money becomes easier the more you get to know the game, and the more silver you can spend on investments as well. There is no 1 way to make money though, everyone needs to find their own niche to profit from.

[@Xatrax]

The importance of crafting in albion is, everything is made by players, literally everything In Caerleon you have the black market, with is basically: When a player opens a chest, there is a 10% chance you get a Sword, if the black market have a Sword, yey you get a sword, if not, you don't get a sword, but he increase the price of that sword in the Black Market, so you can sell the sword to the game so the next time a person drops a sword, he gets a sword, made by you :D So everytime you get something from a chest or a mob that item was crafted by a player in some point, also when you die in a Red or Black Zone, there is a chance your gear explodes, so that keeps the demand for new stuff all the time, specially the high level gear so people can win more in PvP In a nutshell, you can make money either selling directly to players in the central market of every city, or risking a bit and selling it to the game via the Black Market Is the best crafting system i ever seen in a mmo, not becouse the system perce, but all the games systems working together so in some point somebody have to craft the stuff people is using

[@cptpurrito]

Great review! I think you missed the mark on the "daily" section though. As a daily reward just for doing maybe 10-30 min worth of work getting fame for combat, they just reward you with additonal fame in the form of a tome that you're able to save/use for any gear you choose. And the daily fame is added to the monthly just as additional rewards (for premium players) for your grind. Giving you something to look forward to, rather than just unlocking the next tier of gear. Even the monthly is seperated into 4 different rewards, so even if you only choose to play for 3 or 4 days out of the month, you're still getting something extra for your hard work. And most of the rewards from these monthly chests are resources or, in some cases, a cosmetic. All of which are obtainable through the market. And as for the activity with a daily fame bonus, its just an incentivised way to try and bring players into certain activites in order to keep the game feeling populated and busy for players, which can sometimes be an issue since its a sandbox and everyone is off doing their own thing. And this additional incentive doesnt take away from the other aspects of the game so its in no way forcing players to play a certain way just because its a 'daily.' Just adding some more reward for players. Regardless of how they choose to enjoy playing the game. It also has days where crafting certain things is better so it helps to keep the market flowing and to reward players for crafting items that they want to craft, rather than having to craft according to the META in order to make profits. Just my view and opinion on the systems and how beneficial they actually are to gameplay and the actual world of albion. Its pretty well integrated into the system albion uses, and is a compliment to it, unlike other MMOs where you have to go out of your way to do some random daily chore just to make some coin. 😊

[@cptpurrito]

TLDR: the 'daily' system is more in place more as a way to reward players for doing stuff they do normally, regardless of playstyle.

[@gamingwheel2491]

wth your videos are so funny you need more subs not fair man

[@psyjinx]

Can't help but notice you were looking for quests at the end of the video. May I direct you to the title of your previous video?

[@sillyredsheep2421]

5:54 I see even the President of MMOs is not immune to gamer rage

[@JellyPolly]

like your effort making video!

[@Egghead012]

Here's a better explanation of the gear system Ok so, higher tiers can be better, however, your fame in a specific armor or weapon is more important as it increases the base IP of all tiers of that specific item, and a little bit towards the other weapons/armors of the same type(so if u max out all hammers and hammer skill u will have way more IP than just one hammer alone) Its better to use t4 gear in black and red zones with high fame because of the bonuses rather than full t8 unless you're in a specific scenario. In yellow its better to have t6 over t8 until you have higher fame or skill in order to be able to save silver on repairs. Now theres something like i cant remember exactly but its something something masterpiece So you'll have these items with frames having new colors. basically magic, enchanted, masterpiece, i think, this adds another way to increase the IP of the item. So a 6.1 will be better than a t6. a t6.3 is going to be a lot better than a t7.0 or t8.0 due to costs and efficiency, and other factors. so the best equipment you can get is t8.3 which is highly sought after and expensive as hell

[@Nicholas7137]

This man said, "i tried it out as a tank with a battle axe." Lmfao

[@laimonaszolpys7889]

Crafting at low levels also have a good profit margin, that helps you to prepare for crafting higher level items. However, it has a high risk involved, you would need to transfer low tier items to the black market and to sell at a high profit - the only way I see it is worth doing for a begginer crafter. Let alone buying instead of crafting low level 2-3 bags and selling at the black market would also highly profit you.

[@7ehNP]

You changed the title 😂. But ya I love the MMO concept videos, keep it up idyl!

[@ChickenBR]

Now Albion Online has a new class, the shapeshifter, Where you can transform into mythical creatures with the magic staff

[@austintea]

I got an ad for Albion watching this, like im already watching a really long ad you dont need to give me another one

[@Camelotsmoon]

0:09 Pantheon is going to change the face of gaming too!

[@Tatuzka]

I'd be a lot more into Albion, if it actually had EU -server, cause the high ping in NA and especially Asia make PvP really hard.

[@user-eu3tw7vp9k]

I think you have pretty good comedic timing mate, and as an albion player i really enjoyed this video. Cheers! Edit: oh no, i dont think... P.S. the TLDR for crafting in albion is that its a balanced free market with a lot of opportunity for broken things to happen, since the market its also PvP, and new players definitely take a hit there.

[@user-tu3qh9mn3t]

does anyone have tips for this game. I started like 4 days ago and its the first mmorpg ive ever played.

[@FartingSpider12]

5:56 Idyl going hard in the chat suddenly, chill bro! Who hurt you?

[@Fl4ttt]

Very good. Much interactive

[@wwld9823]

I avoided the game because no EU server but its coming now so im excited

[@TheNaturalPride]

the seinfeld bit was good haha.